Team Lead Engineering Patient Safety Risk Management

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The Position

Roche Digital Technology (RDT) is where innovation meets purpose. As a global team at the heart of Roche, we are a community of business-minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow’s digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting-edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we’re building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world.

As a Team Lead Engineering Patient Safety Risk Management, you will join our Safety Risk Profile Management team to develop the engineering capabilities that protect our patients. You will foster a culture of psychological safety and sustainable growth, empowering your team to self-define their career journeys while removing systemic roadblocks. This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-performing technical group dedicated to managing the comprehensive benefit-risk profile for drug and device products.

We lead the digital evolution of Patient Safety at a global scale. As part of our IT leadership team, you will drive the operational excellence of mission-critical systems that enable Pharmacovigilance (PV) for one of the world's largest pharmaceutical portfolios.

Our domain covers the end-to-end safety lifecycle, including Signal Management, Risk Mitigation, Literature Screening, and Reference Safety Information (RSI). You will manage a high-performing team responsible for the steady-state operations and technical health of these platforms, ensuring seamless global compliance while supporting innovative programs like our One Safety Medical Device initiative in a fast-paced, AI-driven environment.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will be the catalyst for technical excellence and team health, ensuring our engineering practices align with the long-term vision of patient safety. You will co-create the technical strategy for a product portfolio that manages critical data-driven insights from global markets to monitor and reduce product risk.

• Lead and Mentor: Proactively identify future-focused engineering capabilities and mentor team members on long-term career paths, creating a balanced and high-performing talent portfolio.

• Drive Delivery Excellence: Accountable for the overall delivery performance and successful shipment of features across the product portfolio, partnering with Product Managers to align technical priorities with business objectives.

• Strategic Optimization: Define success metrics and lead process re-engineering efforts to create step-change improvements in performance across multiple development teams.

• Foster Collaboration: Design initiatives to improve psychological safety and remove complex, cross-functional impediments, ensuring a healthy pipeline of skills and sustainable work-pace.

• Stakeholder & Financial Management: Manage relationships with senior leadership, oversee the team budget (including headcount and vendor contracts), and support business cases for large-scale initiatives.

Who you are

You are a visionary leader who thrives in navigating ambiguity and possesses a lean and agile mindset. You are passionate about breaking down silos and empowering autonomous teams to deliver impactful results in a regulated environment.

• Experienced Leader: You bring a strong and established track record in people leadership, product/service management, or program management, specifically within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated healthcare technology industry.  You are experienced in working on cross-functional topics such as reference safety information management or clinical safety literature management, and supporting portfolio teams in making sharp decisions.  

• Technical Strategist: You possess a deep understanding of software development methodologies, service delivery, and solution/information architecture.

• VACC Mindset: You exhibit servant and creative leadership (Visionary, Architect, Coach, Catalyst) with a demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams and manage complex risks progressively.

• Business Acumen: You hold a Bachelor or advanced degree (Business or IT specialization preferred) and demonstrate executive presence with a keen focus on major IT market trends.

• Collaborative Catalyst: You have an enterprise mindset, focused on delivery through collaboration and bringing people together across organizational boundaries to work toward a common purpose.

This position is based onsite at any of the following Roche sites: Welwyn (UK), Warsaw or Poznan (Poland), or Pune (India). 

We look forward to your application!

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Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Welwyn. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

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